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The Animal That Therefore I Am is the complete text of Jacques Derrida’s ten-hour address to the 1997 Cerisy conference entitled “The Autobiographical Animal.” H-Animal readers probably are familiar with portions of the book: the first of the four sections and title essay appeared in Critical Inquiry in 2002 and was reprinted in an abridged form in Peter Atterton and Matthew Calarco’s ...
22 de sept. de 2009 · David Wills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. 176 pp. $60.00 hb, $20 pb. Derrida first delivered t he written text of The Animal That Therefore I Am (cited hereafter. as AIA) at a ...
The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of "life" to which he returned in much of his later work.
The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of “life” to which he returned in much of his later work.
Therefore, we are also who animals think we are. Philosopher Jacques Derrida experienced this with his cat. He looked at his cat staring at him and realized: “I am the animal that my cat sees”. The animal that I am (or the animal that we all are) was the subject and title of one of my solo exhibitions. In a small room of the art gallery, I ...
The opening chapter in DIVINANIMALITY: ANIMAL THEORY, CREATURELY THEOLOGY, ed. Stephen D. Moore, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014), pp. 17-35, that is an analysis of Derrida’s treatment of animality in THE ANIMAL, THAT THEREFORE, I AM and THE BEAST AND THE SOVEREIGN and what it means for the tradition of ethics that has waged war on animality, assumed sovereignty, distorted vision ...
The Animal That Therefore I Am is a sustained meditation on the role of the 'animal' in philosophy. Derrida questions the logic, the ethics, and the rhetorical and philosophical effects of establishing (or assuming) a boundary that seems to distinguish so clearly, so finally, and so permanently the human from the animal.
